Latest United States Census Bureau data reveals a big gap in total annual pay between the different US states. Data also reveals that California accounts for a quarter of total US language industry employees. Continue reading
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Germany’s Federal Fiscal Court rules that translators only get to enjoy the tax breaks simplified accounting, and other admin perks that come with qualifying as a freelance business if they do all the translation themselves. A two-person agency that outsourced work was hit with back taxes. Continue reading
RWS delivers yet another set of strong results as share price hovers near all-time high. Revenues are up 35% and operating profits up 28% in the first six months of the financial year. Chairman Andrew Brode says they occasionally compete with TransPerfect but would never consider buying them. Continue reading
At Slator’s Tokyo Meetup, held at the Grand Hyatt in Roppongi, participants discussed what’s driving the language industry in 2017. The meetup was well attended by language service providers, industry consultants, and localization buyers. Continue reading
Combined firm to be led by Traktat CEO Aleksey Shesterikov. Rebranding planned for 2018. Lack of organic growth opportunities main driver behind the merger. SmartCat to be new firm’s translation productivity tool. Choice of TMS still to be determined. Continue reading
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Carla Berquo, Senior Manager of Marketing Operations at hearing aid manufacturer Unitron, discusses why localizing marketing content is extremely challenging and why in translating technical documentation ambiguity and mistakes just can’t happen. Continue reading
The European Commission issues EUR 2.4m tender for language technology research. The mandate is to look into how the EU’s proprietary machine translation system can be optimized and how language technology can accelerate EU’s Digital Single Market in ways that go “beyond simple translation.” Continue reading
The video portal’s Translation Marketplace failed to live up to YouTube’s ambitions. YouTube originally launched the service to make content accessible to more of its worldwide users. Instead, many content creators removed the videos again once the subtitles had been translated. Continue reading
The language industry’s fast growing market and rapid technological progress offer fertile ground for entrepreneurs looking to upend the status quo. It is in app and mobile localization, translation project management, and remote interpreting that this batch of founders see opportunity. Continue reading
The National Labor Relations Board has issued a complaint against interpretation services provider SOS International (SOSi). SOSi may be required to reclassify hundreds of interpreters supporting a large government contract from freelance to employee-status nationwide. Continue reading
Here’s a 90-second visual summary of SlatorCon London 2017 for all those who could not make it. Stay tuned for New York and Zurich later this year. Continue reading
Newly created company Valiant Integrated Services buys government services unit from outsourcing company ABM for USD 35.5m. The deal nets Valiant a number of large translation and interpretation contracts with the US Department of Defense. Continue reading
SlatorCon London was attended by over 60 senior language industry executives. We took the opportunity to talk about translation productivity with Lilt’s Spence Green, neural MT with Iconic’s John Tinsley of Iconic, and language industry M&A with Simon Baertl from William Blair & Company. Continue reading
Professional interpreters in California are decrying the alleged priority being given to non-certified interpreters for professional work. An interpreter advocacy group is lobbying the state to tap only certified professionals for medical and legal interpretation services. Continue reading
We asked our readers and two thirds say their businesses are growing and nearly half expect an outsider to disrupt the language industry. Many respondents consider French, Japanese, and Arabic as hard to source. And many of those polled still have lots of clients who do not ask for translation memory discounts. Continue reading
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